Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 3

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The surest poison is time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A day is a miniature eternity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To fill the hour that is happiness to fill the hour and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party but they say nothing and if we do not use the gifts they bring they carry them as silently away.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king rich man fairy or demon who possesses such power as that.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who loses a day loses life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness whether it be to make baskets or broadswords or canals or statues or songs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Obedience alone gives the right to command.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could some blunders and absurdities have crept in forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is saturated with deity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world I thank God I am alive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry she carries them
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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ah if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every reform was once a private opinion and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No sensible person ever made an apology.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a crack in everything God has made.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that if you let it alone it will let you alone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the man is at home his standing in society is well known and quietly taken but when he is abroad it is problematical and is dependent on the success of his manners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are reformers in Spring and Summer in Autumn and Winter we stand by the old reformers in the morning conservers at night.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Difficulties exist to be surmounted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pride ruined the angels.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit and not give the bread of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though I am weak yet God when prayed Cannot withhold his conquering aid.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest man in history was the poorest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Skill to do comes of doing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is a method a progressive arrangement a selecting principle gathering his like unto him wherever he goes. What you are comes to you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are people who have an appetite for grief pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul contains the event that shall befall it for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a man thinketh so is he and as a man chooseth so is he.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics for then we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is always a best way of doing everything if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All men are poets at heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson